This paper is the concluding chapter of Rights, Rents and Fairness: Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme, edited by the co-authors and forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. The main objective of this paper is to distill the lessons and general principles to be learnt from...

The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many political, economic and social challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with...

The present study aims to create a transparent overview of how the interests of the EU and its Member States are best represented in selected international maritime organisations (IMAOs) and, where possible, to suggest mechanisms to ensure that the EU has a single voice on the international...

In the case of Maritime Spatial Planning, the European Commission aims to support its Member States with a tool that enables their maritime economies to grow sustainably. This implies minimum conflicts between economic activities AND other economic or human activities, whilst a good...

The first case study has a national scope and involves a wide variety of the maritime activities identified in the main report. The second case study is concentrated around one specific activity/subject and has a transnational scope. The first case study concerns the economic benefits of MSP in...

The European Commission’s Regional Aid Guidelines define the criteria applied by the European Commission when examining the compatibility of regional aid granted by Member State public authorities within the European internal market. In order to prepare for a review of the RAG 2007-2013, DG...

The importance of biodiversity conservation as a major environmental issue has come to the forefront in recent years. In particular, biodiversity conservation is a critical issue in tropical developing countries, where biodiversity levels are highest and where the threats to this resource are...